MELVIN IS DOING PRETTY GOOD

WHEN I THINK BACK TO HOW HE WAS AND HOW HE IS NOW.HE IS DOING OK. I WOULD STILL LIKE HIM TO BE MORE BALANCED AND FRIENDLY. I CAN REMEMBER THERE WAS A TIME WE COULD NOT EVEN BEND DOWN IN FRONT OF HIM OR NEAR HIM AND HE WOULD GO OFF. WE COULD LEAN DOWN TO WRITE SOMETHING AT THE DINING ROOM TABLE. IF HE WAS ANY WHERE NEAR YOU HE WOULD BARK GROWL AND LUNGE. IF YOU DROPPED SOMETHING YOU COULD NOT BEND AND PICK IT UP. YOU WOULD HAVE TO SEND HIM AWAY FIRST. OR HE WOULD GO FOR YOUR FACE. IF YOU WERE SITTING ON THE COUCH/CHAIR AND HE CAME NEAR YOU YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE SOMEONE CALL HIM AWAY OR RISK GETTING YOU FEET BIT. HE WAS WORSE THAN HE IS NOW. IF YOU DON'T KNOW HIM YOU WOULD NOT KNOW THIS ABOUT HIM. (IF HE WERE NOT SO DAM CUTE).... WELL ANYWAYS. MEAN AS HE IS THAT LITTLE GUY HAS A WAY OF JUST MELTING MY HEART.
NOW HE WILL COME AND SCRATCH HIS LITTLE HINEY ON YOUR FOOT IT IS SOOOOO FUNNY. NO FEAR OF HIM. HE WILL NOW COME AND IS ALWAYS SITTING BY MINE OR SOMEONES FEET. HE WILL EVEN REST HIS CHIN ON YOUR FOOT. PERCH A PAW AND CLEAN IT LAY ON YOUR FEET. NO BITING. I CAN EVEN TAKE MY FOOT AND RUN DOWN HIS BACK NO REACTION AT ALL FROM HIM. AT ONE TIME HE WOULD HAVE TURNED ON A DIME. OR HE WOULD HAVE GOT TO THE GROUND TURNED HIS HEAD EARS BACK AND GAVE YOU THAT BACK OFF BUSTER LOOK AND SLINKED AWAY. I CAN EVEN TAKE MY HAND AND SCRATCH HIS LITTLE HINEY. HE HAS COME ALONG WAY BUT HAS A LONG WAY TO GO. BUT I AM PROUD OF WHAT I HAVE DONE WITH HIM ALOT OF TIME, RESEARCH, READING, LISTENING TO OTHERS HAVE GONE INTO THIS. MOST OF ALL REALIZING HE IS A DOG. NOT TO HUMANIZE HIM....
SAD STORY. MY HUSBAND MET AN OLD TEACHER THAT WORKED WHERE HE DOES. SHE HAD TWO CHIHUAHUA'S AND ONE WAS BITING AND SHE PUT IT TO SLEEP. HE SAID THIS WAS CLEARLY HARD FOR HER. I BURST OUT OH MY GOD I MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO HELP!!!!! SO PLEASE PEOPLE IF YOU DOG HAS AN ISSUE DON'T BE SO QUICK TO GIVE UP ON HIM/HER. THEY ARE GODS CREATURES. HOPEFULLY YOU GOT THE PUP BECAUSE YOU LOVE DOGS. LOVING AND ANIMAL IS NOT GIVING UP ON IT. IT IS NOT JUST FEEDING IT WALKING IT GIVING IT WATER. SOMETIMES THERE IS SPECIAL CARE AND IT TAKES TIME TO WORK WITH THE PET. LIKE HANDICAP CHILDREN THEY EXTRA CARE AND DESERVE IT. SO DOSE THE PET. ALTHOUGH MELVIN IS NOT PERFECT HE IS BETTER AND I COULD NEVER HAVE PUT HIM TO SLEEP. I COULD NOT HAVE LIVED WITH MYSELF. WE TALKED ABOUT GETTING RID OF HIM AFTER HE BIT MY HUSBAND BUT NEITHER OF US COULD. HE BIT MY DAUGHTER PRETTY BAD TOO AND SHE SAID NO TO GETTING RID OF HIM TOO. WE JUST WORKED HARDER WITH HIM. WELL OK. I AM GOING TO POST A PICTURE OF HIM ON THE CHAIR THAT NAUGHTY DOG. BUT NOW INSTEAD OF A TUDE HE JUST GETS OFF THE CHAIR.